Back to the Min Hee Jin and HYBE (and everybody else involved) legal mines, where details from the court’s ruling have been revealed, including evidence that caused a mess involving …
Read More »Min Hee Jin wins ~$18 million stock option lawsuit against HYBE, court mostly accepts her arguments
Back to the legal mess mines with a major update in the NewJeans/Min Hee Jin/ADOR/HYBE case, as courts ruled in favor of Min Hee Jin regarding her put option to …
Read More »An attempt to do a brief HYBE/ADOR/Min Hee Jin/NewJeans catchup post before 2025
Recent events in South Korea really drive home just how insignificant entertainment updates can be, and due to the ongoing mourning period, the appropriate dearth of updates out of the …
Read More »SBS’s ‘UNIVERSE LEAGUE’ under fire for similarities of “Prison” to VIXX’s “ERROR” and others
SBS survival show UNIVERSE LEAGUE has been beefing with fandoms (primarily VIXX‘s) over their mission song called “Prison” for a couple weeks now. I didn’t really notice it a ton …
Read More »[Update] ADOR release rebuttal of NewJeans’ plagiarism allegations + Dispatch detail the formation of NewJeans again, ADOR dispute it, Source dispute ADOR
You know it’s lean times in the HYBE/ADOR mess when it’s about the stuff in this post, but hey, updates are updates, right? ====== Following the plagiarism allegations against NewJeans’ …
Read More »Wise Music Group claims NewJeans’ “Bubble Gum” infringes on Shakatak’s “Easier Said Than Done”, ADOR denies
In news that’s annoying but also funny as hell given the context, ADOR has released a statement denying plagiarism after Wise Music Group sent an official Letter Of Claim last …
Read More »HYBE called out by artist for allegedly plagiarizing their artwork for virtual girl group SYNDI8
Supertone, an AI tech company owned by HYBE, recently launched virtual girl group SYNDI8. Subsequently, they found themselves under fire because one of the group’s members uses the same characters, …
Read More »BELIFT LAB drops 27-minute video addressing plagiarism claims against ILLIT, seem to drag the whole industry into the mess
It seemed like things were settling down on the HYBE/ADOR dispute front, at least to the point where I’d be able to catchup on everything else and recap the current …
Read More »HYBE applies to restrict access to trial records from Min Hee Jin injunction + a brief rant on bias
In a bit of minor news for the HYBE/ADOR conflict, it was reported that HYBE applied for a restriction on trial records access for their injunction case with Min Hee …
Read More »Court ruled Min Hee Jin’s plagiarism concern was ‘legitimate’, dismisses HYBE’s stylist fees & trade secrets allegations + HYBE rejects compromise talk
The fallout from Min Hee Jin’s injunction lawsuit win and second press conference continues as the HYBE/ADOR conflict rages on. This time we head back to the injunction ruling from …
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